The USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), the fourth Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, departed from Naval Base San ...

-The aircraft is too heavy, its airframe and landing gear are not built to withstand violent carrier operations, and it lacks essential features like a tailhook. -Furthermore, in a future high-tech ...

Aircraft carriers have a 5-mile rule that they don't break very often, but there are some occasions where there is no choice.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China has made major technological progress with its aircraft carriers. But compared to the US Navy, China lacks the decades of ...

The pressure for carriers to quickly find and secure the right load is high. But too often, carriers get stuck in the daily grind of manually searching multiple load boards and entering the same load ...

Landing a plane on a small flight deck is far harder than on a large runway—and requires a much larger support crew. Aircraft carrier flight decks are arguably the most complex operational environment ...

The US Navy (USN) is funding research into a new science project that at first glance sounds almost alchemical: turning seawater into jet fuel. That may seem like science fiction, but the Pentagon’s ...